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Mozilla's Rust Language Gets A GCC Compiler Front-End

Phoronix: Mozilla's Rust Language Gets A GCC Compiler Front-End

A Rust language front-end is under development for the GNU Compiler Collection. Rust is Mozilla's programming language under development that's similar to C/++ and aims to be a safe, concurrent practical language...

Rust is a great language, glad to see it's picking up traction. It's a shame D isn't picking up(well, Facebook is replacing its C++ backend with D afaik, which might be great for D.), but Rust seems pretty popular already with a big name behind it.

Rust is a great language, glad to see it's picking up traction. It's a shame D isn't picking up(well, Facebook is replacing its C++ backend with D afaik, which might be great for D.), but Rust seems pretty popular already with a big name behind it.

He's posted on the dlang forums about how they're replacing the C++ backend at facebook with D.

I see.

Sounds pretty weird.
D might be a great language and might be better than C, Objective-C and C++, but there aren't so many compilers for it, and those who exist probably not so optimized.
C++ have more compilers and they are likely much more optimized.
But I don't know.

Pretty interesting someone finally picking up D though.
I remember many years ago, D sounded pretty cool, but now there is C++11 and upcoming C++14, so I don't need if there is still as much need for it today.